Background
Ogilvie grew up in Lenah Valley and attended Roseneath Primary School, The Friends" School, and Hobart College.
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Madeleine Ogilvie
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She studied Classics, Philosophy and History graduating from the University of Melbourne (Bachelor). She graduated in law (Bachelor of Laws) from the University of Tasmania Law School (1993) and later studied at the Australian Graduate School of Management (The Australian Graduate School of Management) at the University of New South Wales.
Career
She was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party in the Division of Denison at the 2014 state election. She was a keen netballer in her youth and represented Tasmania. Ogilvie was resident at Ormond College.
After working for several years in Australia for Allens and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Division of Minerals, Ogilvie worked for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in France on international cultural heritage law, Indonesia on telecommunications infrastructure projects, and the United States of America, in Silicon Valley.
Ogilvie was a General Manager Commercial & Contracts with Telstra Corporation responsible for some of Australia"s largest telecommunications deals. Ogilvie returned to Hobart, Tasmania to raise her family.
In 2006 she established a legal practice in Hobart, Ogilvie & Associates, now Madeleine Ogilvie & Company Lawyers. Ogilvie is known for her advocacy of refugee rights.
Ogilvie first stood for election to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the 2010 state election.
She received 522 first preference votes, but was not elected. She was elected at the March 2014 election, receiving 2,156 votes and being the fifth of five candidates elected for the Denison division under the state"s Hare-Clark system. Ogilvie was the only new Labor member elected in an election that saw the Labor Party lose government and several seats.
Following the 2014 election, Ogilvie was appointed Shadow Minister for Corrections, Aboriginal Affairs, Small Business, and Information Technology and Innovation, as well as being appointed Labor"s Spokesperson for Multicultural Affairs and Opposition Whip.
Ogilvie briefly made headlines in December 2015 after voting against an in-principle motion supporting marriage equality, and in particular her online reaction to activists including Labor members drawing a chalk rainbow outside her electorate office.
